Photoshop Tutorial: How to Make a Basic, Frame Animation

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hi this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV

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I'm going to show you how to create a

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simple frame animation in Photoshop you

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can add as much or as little graphics in

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your animation as you like keep in mind

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the animation feature isn't available in

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earlier versions make a new document by

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pressing control n on Windows or command

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n on a Mac I'll make the size of this

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document 1280 by 720 pixels with a

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resolution of 150 pixels per inch you

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can make yours any size you like to fit

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the documents on your screen press ctrl

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or command 0 open your horizontal type

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tool and choose a font I'm choosing a

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font called false 3d if you'd like to

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use it I provided its link which is

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located in the video description or

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project files i'll make the size 116

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points sharp centre alignment and black

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for the color type out your text to

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increase or decrease the space between

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lines go to window and character the

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character panel will open highlight the

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bottom line and slide the baseline shift

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icon to the left or right to Center your

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text click on the move tool and move it

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you can close the character panel now

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we're ready to add color to the text but

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first we need to rasterize it go to

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layer rasterize and type click on the

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foreground color pick a color then click

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ok open your paint bucket tool

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and click inside your characters if you

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accidentally click on another part press

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Z to undo it repeat the process to add

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color for each character

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next we'll cut and copy each character

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to its own layer to do this open your

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lasso tool and carefully draw around the

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first character press ctrl J on Windows

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or command J on a Mac to cut and copy

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the first character to its own layer

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make your original text layer active

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draw around the second character and cut

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and copy it to its own layer repeat this

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with every character hi the original

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layer and make a composite snapshot of

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your image by making your top layer

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active and pressing ctrl shift alt e on

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windows or command shift option e on a

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mac name it one this will be the first

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frame of your animation hide the layer

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and open your move tool make sure auto

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select is checked this allows us to move

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individual characters simply by clicking

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on them go to view and make sure Snap is

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not checked if it is simply click on it

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click on each character and move it

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slightly

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make a composite snapshot of your image

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by scrolling to the top of your layers

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panel and making the top character layer

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active use the same key strokes as you

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did earlier to make the composite

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snapshot and name it too this will be

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your second frame of animation hide the

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layer and slightly move each character

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again make the top character layer

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active make a composite snapshot and

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name it three this will be your third

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frame of animation continue to make as

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many frames as you like for this example

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I'll make five frames make all the frame

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layers visible go to file and save as

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save it to your desktop and click on new

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folder name it animation click on the

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animation folder and name the file one

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as a JPEG then click Save when you see

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this window make sure the quality is

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maximum and the slider is all the way to

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the right then click OK hide layer 1 and

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go back to file and save as click

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desktop and the animation folder name it

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too as a JPEG click save and ok repeat

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these steps for all of your frame layers

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go to file scripts and load files into

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stack click on this arrow and choose

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folder click browse and the animation

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folder then click OK on both windows

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Photoshop automatically is loading all

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the layers into a stack this next step

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differs depending on what version of

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photoshop you have for photoshop cs5 go

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to window and animation for cs6 and

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Creative Cloud go to window and timeline

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at the bottom in the middle of the panel

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you'll see a button with a drop-down

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allowing you to choose either create

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video timeline or create frame animation

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choose create frame animation in the

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animation timeline panel menu click make

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frames from layers now we'll change the

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duration of each frame click select all

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frames notice all the frames are now

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highlighted click the down arrow just

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underneath one of the frame images you

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can set a time duration for your frames

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since all frames are selected all frames

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will be set to the same time each frame

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can be changed individually if you want

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for this example I'll choose point 1

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seconds notice all the frames have

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durations of 0 point 1 seconds presently

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the animation is set to play once so

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I'll click on the arrow next to it and

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choose forever to play the animation

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press the play button to save it click

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file and save for web make sure the file

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format is set to jiff then click Save

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choose a location to save it to I'll

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save mine to my desktop I'll name it

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animation clip then click save to open

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the file just click on it this is Marty

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from Blue Lightning TV thanks for

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watching